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Apple Cream

A dessert made by stewing apples, mixing with lemon rind, sieving, and folding into whipped cream, topped with almonds and jam.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 777 recipes. Both carry gamma-undecalactone, which smells peach, sweet. The science ↓

Apple Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the apple pulp

  1. Stew the apples with hot water and sugar until soft.

  2. Add the grated lemon rind and mix well.

  3. Pass the mixture through a sieve to create a smooth pulp.

  4. Allow the pulp to cool, then stir it into the whipped cream.

Assemble and garnish

  1. Transfer the mixture to a glass dish.

  2. Sprinkle chopped almonds or nuts on top.

  3. Garnish with heaps of apricot jam or red currant jelly.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Apple + apricottop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together777 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  2. Almond + apricottop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together852 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Lemon + almondtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Lemon + apricottop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,098 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Apples
Provide the main fruit flavour and a soft, smooth pulp that gives body to the cream.
Cream
Adds richness and a light, airy texture when whipped.
Sugar
Sweetens the stewed apples and balances the tartness of the fruit.
Lemon rind
Adds bright aromatic oils that lift the flavour of the apples.

The step that matters

Passing the stewed apples through a sieve. If the apples are not cooked fully soft, the pulp will be lumpy and grainy. Cooling the pulp before folding it in matters because warm pulp can deflate the whipped cream and cause it to lose its volume.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, cream, sugar, almond, apricot):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, cream, sugar, almond, apricot. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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